1973 Topps Blue Team Checklists

[nolemmings]

They were not in the all series packs in Minnesota. The southern part of the state anyway.

[GasHouseGang]

I collected the set a few years after the 1973 cards were issued and I never came across the blue checklists. I finally got some that appeared to be torn (unfortunately) from an uncut sheet. Are there factory cut versions or are they actually cut from the sheets that were offered?

[stlcardsfan]

1973 was my first year of collecting, is my favorite set and I have built 3 of them. I never considered the blue checklists part of the set. However, about 5 years ago I came across a complete set in EXMT/NRMT condition at a show and spent the $150 to buy it.

[oaks1912]

As posted above there is another thread on these from around a decade back. Below is that link. There doesn't seem to be much 'new' info added over the last ten years. But good to keep these threads linked together for future reference

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=184284

[sb1]

I did not have them as a kid, but felt obligated to include them in my current set.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I collected the set a few years after the 1973 cards were issued and I never came across the blue checklists. I finally got some that appeared to be torn (unfortunately) from an uncut sheet. Are there factory cut versions or are they actually cut from the sheets that were offered?

Excellent questions all around. It appears I cannot upload or attach images right now but have tried and maybe they will pop once site issues are resolved. I blogged about this a while back, here is the post: https://www.thetoppsarchives.com/202...ust-cards.html:

The blue checklists came in at least some all series packs and the retail box indicated this. The box commodity code is in red and has a 451 product number vs. 401 for cards issued in series. I'm not 100% clear on whether or not any packs can be found with the 451 codes and it seems they just used the 401's and inserted the checklists. They were experimenting and as with all things Topps, there will be variance in how things were issued.

I don't own a 73 premium example so can't say for certain but the card stock seems similar for both, see the attached image from a 2022 eBay auction I missed.

[deweyinthehall]

I have a set of the individual cards (not hand cut) and a premium uncut sheet - the stock is the same.

By the way - these pages have looked kinda strange on my end lately - no ones avatar images are showing up, posted images aren't always appearing, and a little question mark inside a black diamond pops up in posts where some sort of punctuation should be - I will try to copy and paste a sample from an earlier post on this thread here: " I don�t recall "

Is net54 about to explode or something??